Talk:Pacific Ocean Park

A fact from Pacific Ocean Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 November 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "POP" is a nickname for Pacific Ocean Park, a 28 acre amusement park built on a pier at Santa Monica, California?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/November.

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Cultural references[edit]

Iggy Pop's song "Kill City" refers to the then-closed POP: "I'm living in Kill City where the debris meets the sea." Iggy was living in Venice at the time he wrote the song (1974).

There was a rock club adjacent to POP called The Cheetah in the 1960s.

Choreographed scenes from Nancy Sinatra's 1967 special "Movin' With Nancy" were filmed at Pacific Ocean Park shortly after it closed.

I agree, there should be a new section or topic titled ‘In Popular Culture’ with TV shows and movies filmed there, and songs that reference POP by name. Rather than stuck in Decline topic Dec212012 (talk) 08:20, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

poop, uh, pop.[edit]

The article does not list who decided closure, nor motivation.

Nor the motivation of "...demolished and streets leading to the park were closed."

Hopiakuta 13:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In_Praise_of_Pip

Hopiakuta 13:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Popark.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 12:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rebuild?[edit]

I understand the ruins of the pier still exist. Has anyone considered rebuilding the park? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.97 (talk) 05:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Evanier details his fathers involvement in the IRS shutting down of P.O.P.[edit]

Mark Evanier's blog entry about the IRS shutdown of Pacific Ocean Park and his father's involvement. Kenshiroh (talk) 01:21, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]